BamaD
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or "Right, the kid in Michigan who was asked what would make him feel safer and said arm some of the teachers. The district threatened to have the kid taken away from his parents if they fought him being transfered to a school for "problem" students. I think the parents sued, but I never heard how that turned out. " I never heard about them wanting to take him away, but they wanted to put him in a "mentoring" program. Not exactly what that means but I doubt it really means removal from the household. Pretty sure the kid's name was Darrell or Darrin and his last name started with an "H". I have the original transcripted article from Usenet but it is to the point it is easier to find something on the internet than my house server. I don't even remember how many harddrives there are in that thing anymore. I hit that point in tools as well, got so much can't find anything. I used to have two lathes. How many people have you run across who had TWO lathes at home ? But on the computer I pretty much never delete anything. Even my laptop has two harddrive in it, and I mean in it, not external. This baby has two bays, which is quite unusual from what I hear. I bought it because of the larger screen, which I can still barely see. People come over and want to show me things on their cellphones, forget it. My downstairs PC has a 23" monitor which actually I can read much better but I don't want to be down there. But it is by my bench and is quite handy for schematics and datasheets. Enough about me though. I will probably ever find that article, and it is in text format being saved from Usenet. You know why there is no Leonard Skynard on my PCs ? Because of the words to one song. After this "gimme back my bullets" and trying to curry the pro gun crowd they got bought or something ad came out with Saturday Night Special. Why don't we dump them, people, To the bottom of the sea, Before some old fool comes around here, Wants to shoot either you or me This is the most illogical thing in the world. If someone comes around and wants to shoot you, you are better off without a gun ? And people were singing along with this bullshit. And then there was Gimme Three Steps. You could hear him screaming a mile away ? Seriously ? Fucking so goddamn sickening they wrecked all their music for me. I used to play "Simple Man" on guitar and actually transposed it from A to E and invented a new B chord to do it. But I'll not foul my guitars with that anymore. Popular musicians have power, lyrics do affect some people. The music part with the instruments is like the sugar that helps the lyrics go down. The bullshit people watch on TV, they do not know if it is real or not. Seriously. My family is different. They talk about kids getting violent because of video games, well that's because those are their whole life. My family interacted, and we knew reality from fantasy. Sure there was violence on TV, because it was interesting as a story. We also read books that had shitloads of violence in them. Yet only one person in my whole family was ever convicted of a felony and that was for running a chop shop. We never did violence, all had guns and never shot anyone. See, in those days when they were still all alive, when you pulled into Grampa's driveway on Sunday for dinner, you left the keys in your car. Even to the last day of me having a car I never locked the doors. And there were days I didn't even lock the house doors. People do not think. First of all, how many people are out there just randomly trying car doors to see which ones are unlocked ? And for what, the bottle of whiskey under the seat ? Or weed. We take that shit in the house. The radio ? Actually for a time that was an issue, but now you need the same make and model car or it doesn't fit and you spend more making it fit than a new radio would cost. But yeah, for a time if you had an FM stereo you were a target, but what these assholes didn't know was that usually there was another box under the dash that contained the stereo decoder and the second amp. Or in other cases the output transistors for both amps like Pontiac, which means if you don't get that you got no radio, and that thing was up behind the glovebox. By then though, luckily, people stopped leaving their guns in the glovebox at night. And locks on your house doors. They make you feel safe but are totally unnecessary. How many people, even the stupidest of criminals, are going to go door to door checking for an unlocked door. And then they are going to enter the abode, not knowing if the people have dogs or guns or are martial arts master or otherwise very tough ? And to find what ? A bunch of the valuables that are too fucking big to carry away ? Even stores, you flip the sign to "CLOSED" and people will assume the door is locked. I want to see the look on some thief's face when he makes all that racket breaking the glass only to find the door was not even locked. And then there are alarms that go off even if you got the key or the door is unlocked. People are fucking crazy. I AM alright, the world is all wrong. That is not bullshit. Even if I get another car, which is doubtful, I will not lock the doors, I just won't leave anything of value in there. Take the radio, I don't need the thing. In fact I'll cut it of of the AC controls and leave it o the seat for you and if it is not going to rain I will even leave the windows open. People seem to think cars are like an environment or something. No, they are a conveyance. If they go faster than other cars good. If they get better mileage than other cars good. My cousin, and good friend actually, had an Olds 442 which was turned into a 642 with an Edelbrock and three Hollys. Someone stol the radio and fucked up the panel real bad. He said "I would have taken it out and gave it to them rather than having this". He died about 25 years ago in a motorcycle accident, and honestly it appears it was his fault. He knew how to drive, we all did. In fact the whole family learned to drive on stick shifts. But he took one risk he should not have and his neck went around the driveshaft of a truck. Whaddya gonna do ? Enough, I doubt anyone will eve read down to here... T^T The threat to take him away was the leverage they used to force the parents to sign the papers to shift him into a program for kids that they "needed" to isolate from the general school population, like kids who brought weapons to school..
< Message edited by BamaD -- 8/29/2016 6:46:50 AM >
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Government ranges from a necessary evil to an intolerable one. Thomas Paine People don't believe they can defend themselves because they have guns, they have guns because they believe they can defend themselves.
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